Re: Corporate Welfare

SORRY ABOUT TOP-POSTING. If ever there was a post that deserved to be
cross-posted to apse, this is it. Enjoy.
> Nice explanation of the wingnuttian "thought" process. Hint: think Wall
> Street bailout.
> Here's how corporatist Republicans fight for corporate welfare:
>
>
> General Public: We should find a way to benefit from this special new
> scientific development.
>
> Corporatist Republicans: Because of the inherent cost of
> development/economy of scale/physical constraints/huge upfront cost/
> etc., the only way to build new infrastructure to support this special
> new scientific development is with massive tax breaks and a guarantee
> that the government will give the private developer a defacto monopoly.
> This development is so critical the government must aid the market.
>
> Progressives: We strongly oppose private monopolies and giving
> corporations the public's money. If you are saying this is something the
> market is incapable of doing on its own but is critical infrastructure,
> why not treat it like public roads and make it a publicly-run utility?
>
> Corporatist Republicans: BIG GOVERNMENT IS BAD!!! We will never allow
> the enlargement of government. Development and implementation must be
> done by the ever-superior private sector.
>
> Progressives: But you said the private sector was incapable of doing
> this and that we needed to provide the market with huge subsidies and
> the promise of a monopoly to support development.
>
> Corporatist Republicans: Are you communists? Is this some scheme to help
> your public sector union buddies get jobs? This must be some kind of
> union corruption otherwise why would you dare question the wisdom of
> handing a large corporation $10 billions of the government money. The
> only way we will allow this improvement to be developed is through the
> private sector.
>
> Progressives: We are willing to accept a public-private partnership to
> get this much needed development but we demand tough regulations on
> these companies so they don't exploit the effective monopoly the
> government is giving them.
>
> Corporatist Republicans: This is an acceptable compromise to stop your
> creeping socialism.
>
> Five years later...
>
> Corporatist Republicans: We demand deregulation of this industry. It
> will self-regulate thanks to the invisible hand of the market.
>
> Progressives: Wait; this is a monopoly you demanded the government help
> create and continue to protect. Without regulation this monopoly will
> rip off the public. There won't even be a market mechanism to inhibit
> bad behavior. How can you say this tiny number of protected private
> companies should be able to make endless profit from a massive
> investment by the government?
>
> Corporatist Republicans: Free Market is good! Regulation is bad! SMALL
> GOVERNMENT FOREVER!!!
>
> Progressives: What free market? What small government? You demanded we
> use the government's power and money to create this monopoly. There is
> no market at work here, because there's no real competition. This isn't
> the invisible hand of the market; this is your hand giving government
> money to your friends.
>
> Corporatist Republicans: Shhhh;if you are mean to the CEO they will
> leave us without their superior benevolence guidance. They are Galtian
> heroes; without their leadership our country would become a dystopian
> hell.
>
> Progressives: This is absurd. No one is going to leave their $15 million
> dollar job because we are mean to them. Even if CEOs leave any of these
> companies, their vice-presidents would happily step up to take the job.
> Since you demanded these companies become a unregulated
> government-protected monopoly even a drunk monkey could make them turn a
> profit.
>
> Corporatist Republicans: You hate the job creators. You must hate these
> rugged individuals who build these companies with their own hands. You
> want to take way their freedom. This means you hate America.
>
> <http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/01/01/how-to-rip-off-the-public-a
> s-a-corporatist-republican-play-one/>

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Aardvark <> wrote:
>
>SORRY ABOUT TOP-POSTING. If ever there was a post that deserved to be
>cross-posted to apse, this is it. Enjoy.
>
>> Nice explanation of the wingnuttian "thought" process. Hint: think Wall
>> Street bailout.

I already emailed the editor to see if he wants his copyrighted
material re-posted like that.

G. Morgan wrote:
> Aardvark<> wrote:
>
>>
>> SORRY ABOUT TOP-POSTING. If ever there was a post that deserved to be
>> cross-posted to apse, this is it. Enjoy.
>>
>>> Nice explanation of the wingnuttian "thought" process. Hint: think Wall
>>> Street bailout.
>
> I already emailed the editor to see if he wants his copyrighted
> material re-posted like that.
>
Yeah Aardvark, the proper way is to ask first, then do it anyway.

On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:47:00 -0500, FromTheRafters wrote:
> G. Morgan wrote:
>> Aardvark<> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> SORRY ABOUT TOP-POSTING. If ever there was a post that deserved to be
>>> cross-posted to apse, this is it. Enjoy.
>>>
>>>> Nice explanation of the wingnuttian "thought" process. Hint: think
>>>> Wall Street bailout.
>>
>> I already emailed the editor to see if he wants his copyrighted
>> material re-posted like that.
>>
> Yeah Aardvark, the proper way is to ask first, then do it anyway.

Aardvark wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:47:00 -0500, FromTheRafters wrote:
>
>> G. Morgan wrote:
>>> Aardvark<> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> SORRY ABOUT TOP-POSTING. If ever there was a post that deserved to be
>>>> cross-posted to apse, this is it. Enjoy.
>>>>
>>>>> Nice explanation of the wingnuttian "thought" process. Hint: think
>>>>> Wall Street bailout.
>>>
>>> I already emailed the editor to see if he wants his copyrighted
>>> material re-posted like that.
>>>
>> Yeah Aardvark, the proper way is to ask first, then do it anyway.
>
> I only replied to the OP and cross-posted.
>
Yeah, it's not as if it was taken from a private server or anything like
that.

On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:41:13 -0500, FromTheRafters wrote:
> Aardvark wrote:
>> On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:47:00 -0500, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>
>>> G. Morgan wrote:
>>>> Aardvark<> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> SORRY ABOUT TOP-POSTING. If ever there was a post that deserved to
>>>>> be cross-posted to apse, this is it. Enjoy.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Nice explanation of the wingnuttian "thought" process. Hint: think
>>>>>> Wall Street bailout.
>>>>
>>>> I already emailed the editor to see if he wants his copyrighted
>>>> material re-posted like that.
>>>>
>>> Yeah Aardvark, the proper way is to ask first, then do it anyway.
>>
>> I only replied to the OP and cross-posted.
>>
> Yeah, it's not as if it was taken from a private server or anything like
> that.

LOL. Wolfus explained that he's in email contact with contributors to the
site in question. I know him well enough to know he wouldn't want to piss
them off- I would expect that they might even encourage him to spread
their word.

~BD~ wrote:
> Jenn wrote:
>>> Maybe one of these days Aardvark will stop being snooty with me and
>>> give me a great big hug! lol
>>
>>
>> .. and good luck with that! LOL
>
> A new year would be a great time for all to start over.

"Jenn" <> wrote in message
news:ifqnk4$5mq$-september.org...
> ~BD~ wrote:
>> Jenn wrote:
>
>>>> Maybe one of these days Aardvark will stop being snooty with me and
>>>> give me a great big hug! lol
>>>
>>>
>>> .. and good luck with that! LOL
>>
>> A new year would be a great time for all to start over.
>
>
> Of course ..

No sweat of my tookus, Aardvark is just not that important in my life.
<shrug>

It DOES LOOK like this year is hopeless for the big change here, FTR. I
had hope thinking that the petty bickering and pointless gossiping over
the backyard fence, [not to mention the childish threats going back and
forth about this or that being illegal and grounds for criminal
prosecution, or libel suits in civil court] was a past memory, but
alas...this is not to be.
So what does one do, knowing this NG will continue with the same-ole
same-ole? I don't know...do you? :-?

--
Eagle
"Be who you are and say what you feel...
Because those that matter... don't mind...
And those that mind... don't matter..
In God We Trust

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